Cooper Parry had identified a gap in the market that no one was serving properly: senior finance leaders in the UK's high-growth tech ecosystem needed a dedicated community, not just another networking group with canapes and business cards.
Tech CFO was designed as a proper membership community with curated events, substantive resources, and genuine peer connections for people navigating the specific financial challenges of scaling technology companies.
But before the Webflow build, the community didn't have a digital home that reflected its ambition or made it easy for finance leaders to discover and engage with what was on offer.
The previous platform couldn't support the editorial calendar Tech CFO was planning: regular events with speaker profiles, community insights and thought leadership, resources addressing the unique challenges finance leaders face in high-growth tech environments.
The content strategy was there but the platform was a constraint, not an enabler. Every content update involved friction, and the presentation didn't match the calibre of the audience.
Cooper Parry needed a partner who could handle the full migration without losing search visibility and build something the internal team could manage as the community scaled. The site had to feel premium because the audience is premium: CFOs and finance directors at some of the UK's most ambitious tech companies.
These are people who evaluate quality instinctively, and a site that looks like a template would undermine the community's credibility before anyone registered for an event.